The issue at hand is the affordability of oral chemotherapy treatment.

As it stands, the majority of insurance companies cover IV chemotherapy, but either don't cover the oral version or charge tens of thousands of dollars for it.

A bipartisan bill in the state Senate would require insurance companies to cover the oral drug.

However, Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald appears to be blocking a vote on the bill.

Republican state Sen. Alberta Darling is a cancer survivor and said this bill must pass.

"We should be able to have that choice, and the doctors should be the ones to choose the best treatment, and if you have insurance, and it covers chemotherapy, we're saying that there should be parity with oral chemotherapy as well," Darling said.

The majority leader's brother, Jeff Fitzgerald, is lobbying against the bill, but Darling doesn't believe those efforts have any role in why the bill hasn't come to vote.

Time is running out on any chance of it passing as the Senate prepares to finish out the session next week.